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Richard Dixon

Richard Dixon

environmental campaigner and consultant

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Richard Dixon

environmental campaigner and consultant

In 30 years of environmental campaigning, including as Director of both Friends of the Earth Scotland and WWF Scotland, I have helped bring an end to fracking, shape two Climate Acts, block plans for oil fields and power stations, create Low Emission Zones in four cities and get government to start taking Just Transition seriously. I also helped set up Transform Scotland and Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, and chaired the Edinburgh Community Solar Coop.

I am now a freelance researcher and writer on climate and energy, and an advisor on campaign, advocacy, comms and organisational strategy.


Scribblings (including my Thursday Scotsman column)

May 24, 2023

Sewage overflows and climate change

The crisis of sewage in rivers and at beaches was entirely predictable, with overflowing sewers designed into the system while ignoring coming climate change. In the late 1990s I helped persuade the Scottish Government to increase the number of official …

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May 17, 2023

Legal challenges push governments on climate

From the Netherlands to the United States, more and more legal actions are being brought to try to force governments to do the right thing on climate change.  The same kind of scrutiny might be about to be turned upon Scotland’s …

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May 11, 2023

Climate change accelerates

The world’s climate scientist recently warned that the predicted impacts of climate change are happening faster and more strongly than previously expected.  Tumbling weather records around the world do indeed show climate change accelerating. It’s not even mid-May but we already …

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